Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abyssinian Baptist Church and kisses the womenfolk in the congregation afterward, ran into parsonage trouble. Mrs. Powell, a onetime nightclub performer, sued for separation after eleven years of marriage, charged Pastor Powell with "infatuation" for another nightclub performer. Broadway wiseacres immediately identified the parsonage-wrecker as round-eyed Pianist Hazel Scott, famed in café society for blending boogie-woogie with Bach. Asking the court to grant her $100 a week temporary alimony, Mrs. Powell told virtually all: "I pleaded with him to make good our marriage, in view of the fact that he was sure to be elected...
...Lake, she has a master's degree in composition from Chicago's American Conservatory, and has written more than 500 pieces, including fugues, passacaglias, a concerto, four other masses. Born some 30 years ago in Fredericksburg, Tex., home town of Admiral Chester Nimitz, she is an accomplished pianist and has a lightning musical memory that enables her to write down or play a complicated piece a week after hearing it. She has long been interested in the indigenous music of the Southwest, and many of her works have themes of Amerindian or Mexican origin. An Oklahoma oilman suggested...
Oscar Levant, pianist-composer and brittle-brained, self-styled "lowbrow" quiz expert, became an ex-expert when he made an exit from Information Please. Said he: "I don't mind being off the show. I think it's anticreative. Now I can read things I don't have to remember. It was just like my first marriage. We were not only incompatible. We hated each other...
...Concerto No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with the composer at the piano; Victor; 8 sides). By the time the late great Sergei Rachmaninoff got around to his fourth concerto, his powers as a composer were on the wane, but his powers as a pianist kept their vigor. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...this story are a few dingy streets, a beerhouse, a room filled with "the winter day like dirty water," and five principal characters: a gawky young Texas artist; an aristocratic student from Heidelberg with a freshly gashed dueling scar on his cheek; a wolfish but pathetic landlady; Polish pianist; a browbeaten, impecunious professor of mathematics. Out of these Author Porter has carefully built a somber, horrifying picture of a country on the verge of tragedy - a leaning tower ready to fall at the touch of a strong hand...